<p>I’m an international, but grade deflation’s rife here. Thankfully our leaving certificate is standardised (everyone sits the same exams), but normally, about 8% of so of students around the state receive an A+. Another 8 or so percent again attain an A. At my school, well over 50% of our standardised scores are A+ (in competitive subjects too, mind you), and a handful of students graduate with perfect leaving ranks each year… but yet we just had a maths test where the average was 46%.</p>
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<p>How?! How the hell?! How the EFF could they send friggin 42 people to Harvard just like that?! It doesn’t make any sense at all! 23 people to MIT? No one’s gotten into MIT from our school for the past EFFing 10 years.
How can schools like this exist? I mean I understand CC, but this?! What the hell? I even read Separate Peace, but I never imagined this. Friggin…can’t believe this.</p>
<p>Exeter and Andover are probably the best in the nation.
Best in US= Best in the world?</p>
<p>They are the best. Lovely schools. 
I applied this year as a repeat junior but got rejected. I didn’t do my apps justice.</p>
<p>I don’t think best in the US = best in the world. Different educational systems have different benefits, and best is subjective. That said, those places do look particularly good… perhaps even on par with places like Eton.</p>
<p>@schrodinger
I agree with you.
Where is Eton?</p>
<p>^United Kingdom.</p>
<p>Well, Exeter is a feeder school for Harvard lol…but agreed, wonderful school, and would love to attend!</p>
<p>All grades in the UK are done via the A-levels and Pre-Us, indiviual schools do not do grades in that sense. So if this is a “grade-deflating schools” thread still then UK schools are not applicable. If it is now a “best high schools” thread then by all means, Eton and Westminster should be at the forefront of the topic!</p>
<p>^ Fair Point.
Thanks</p>